BREAD
to WINE
CREATION, WORSHIP, AND CHRISTIAN MATURITY
JAMES B. JORDAN
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Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity
Copyright © 2019 James B. Jordan
First published in Rite Reasons 62–77 (February 2000–May 2001) by Biblical Horizons
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INTRODUCTION: A Work in Progress
CHAPTER ONE: The Ritual of the Lord’s Supper
CHAPTER TWO: Priest, King, and Prophet
CHAPTER THREE: From Bread to Wine
CHAPTER FOUR: God’s Life and Our Lives
CHAPTER FIVE: From Three to Five
CHAPTER SIX: The Ritual Offerings
CHAPTER SEVEN: Death and New Life
CHAPTER EIGHT: Repeating the Ritual
CHAPTER NINE: The Places of Trial and Suffering
Jesus’ Three Testings and the Lord’s Supper
CHAPTER TEN: Journey to Maturity, Part One: Leaving Home
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Journey to Maturity, Part Two: Midlife Crisis
CHAPTER TWELVE: Journey to Maturity, Part Three: Becoming Prophets
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Genesis One:
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Genesis One and Ritual
Christian Piety: Deformed and Reformed
Primeval Piety: Its Corruption and Restoration
Twelve Fundamental Avenues of Revelation
A Work in Progress
Liturgical Theology is virtually non-existent in Calvinistic circles in the United States. While work has been done by Reformed thinkers in France, such as Jean-Jacques von Allmen and Richard Paquier, for the most part theological reflection on liturgics is found only in Anglican, Lutheran, Roman, and Orthodox circles. Reformed liturgists, such as they are, seem content with repeating lists of dos and don’ts or with making historical studies. The works of von Allmen and Paquier have been made available in English, but from Lutheran and other non-Reformed publishing houses!
At this point in my life, I have neither the time nor the resources to write a comprehensive Liturgical Theology to present to ...
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About From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian MaturityBiblical rituals are not strange practices or obscure formalities but correspond to the stages of human life, revealing God’s design for how we can emulate His ways. In From Bread to Wine: Creation, Worship, and Christian Maturity, James B. Jordan explores how sin disrupts the rhythms of human life and how biblical rituals restore us to our place in God’s historical plan with special emphasis on the motifs of bread and wine throughout the Scriptures. In the Bible, bread is priestly while wine is kingly and prophetic. Bread comes first and wine later. You eat bread in the morning and drink wine at night. Bread is suitable for children while wine is for adults. Bread is made quickly, but wine takes much longer to ferment and mature. The entire Old Creation, the childhood of humanity (Galatians 4), is the time of bread, while the New Covenant, our maturity in Christ, is the time of bread and wine. Between the two comes the breaking of the bread, the death of Jesus Christ. |
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